can we have a two minute posting silence at 11:00?

[wannaBe]

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Yes please.

Watching Harry Patch with his wreath on BBC now, bless him. Will be observing silence at 11.

yup.

what have i missed? what's at 11?

Remembrance Day!

PT, it's Armistice Day!

excuse my spelling.

80 years since the end of WW1

2 mins silence being observed here

Yes

Hmm, nothing stopping you from observing the silence if you want to, but it's not right (or practical) to enforce it on those who don't feel so inclined

Oh god, sorry, it's 90 years

90 years

ahh... in ireland so wasn't aware of that.

why would anyone not feel so inclined? serious question - do people not feel respect for those that have lost their lives in wars for this country?

I always blub at 11. My makeup is currently running down my face. One year I will remember not to wear make up on 11th of the 11th.
Marking the silence is highly important I believe, as they say, lest we forget.

I think it is important to observe it. So many lives destroyed.

I observe the silence here although dds were watching the night garden in the other room while shouting loudly for me

erm pinktulips, at that time Ireland was part of the UK and Irishmen were recruited into the army on the same basis as any other British subject.
The whole of europe is commemorating armistice day, and lots of other parts of the world.

Not in the way you mean, wannabe, no. I feel anger and disgust at the way in which these people died and the shoddy bestial reasons for the wars that killed them. I do feel respect for the fallen - it's just that I don't feel that shiny-eyed sentimentality, poppy wreaths and high-minded speeches about "dying for our freedom" shows any respect or even basic understanding of what happened and continues to happen. Since you ask.

pinktulips 50,000 Irishmen gave their lives in the first world war despite what was going on in Ireland at the time.

EdwardCullen glad I'm not the only one that gets emotional. I went to the local memorial service on Sunday, and ended up having to come away at 11.05 as I didn't want to embarrass myself.

It's watching the veterans that do it, you can see the pain and memories in their eyes.

Hear hear Greensleeves.

I also heartily dislike the way that remembrance is seamlessly mingled with military propaganda.

It doesn't mean that I don't feel respect for the fallen - but I do feel more anger than anything else.

I like to observe the silence to remember those who died or were physically/mentally destroyed by war. I don't think hating war and observing the silence are mutually exclusive?